Apple Podcast Rankings - Canada - Documentary

Discover the Top 100 Podcasts in Canada

Explore the latest data-driven rankings of the top 100 podcasts in Canada. Our comprehensive analysis covers the best Apple Podcasts across various categories, providing insights into the most popular shows, episode lengths, publication frequencies, and leading hosting services. Whether you're a podcast creator or an avid listener, find the top-ranked podcasts that everyone is tuning into right now.

Podcast charts from 11 Jul 2025

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07/11/2025

Average data

Episodes: 164

Frequency: every 254 days

Duration: 00:46:11

Top 5 authors

1. BBC Radio 4 (6 shows)

2. iHeartPodcasts (4 shows)

3. BBC (3 shows)

4. Tortoise Media (3 shows)

5. CBC (3 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (18 shows)

2. BBC (13 shows)

3. Megaphone (13 shows)

4. Omny Studio (10 shows)

5. Simplecast (6 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	The Turning - Seasons 1, 2 & 3	iHeartPodcasts and Rococo Punch	Society & Culture	42	Omny Studio	63
2	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	93	Acast	79
3	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
4	Pipeline	Daily Mail	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
5	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	68	Triton Digital	63
6	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	937	Simplecast	38
7	Au Parloir	Cédric Bergeron	Society & Culture	155	Acast	43
8	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	115	Spreaker	84
9	Live Wire: The Loud Life and Shocking Murder of Alan Berg	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	68
10	Criminal	Vox Media Podcast Network	True Crime	489	Megaphone	63
11	Something Was Wrong	Broken Cycle Media	True Crime	378	Audioboom	62
12	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	96	BBC	53
13	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	350	ART19	68
14	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	302	Megaphone	42
15	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	48	RedCircle	73
16	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
17	Hysterical	Audible \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
18	The Takeover	Canada's National Observer	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
19	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	431	Megaphone	32
20	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	140	Megaphone	68
21	Careless \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	120	Acast	73
22	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
23	13 Minutes Presents: Artemis II	BBC World Service	History	56	BBC	33
24	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	212	Megaphone	38
25	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	79
26	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	23	American Public Media	62
27	The Redefector	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	69
28	Top Comment	BBC	News	97	BBC	48
29	Manger les riches	Pier-Luc Ouellet & Colin Boudrias	Society & Culture	21	RSS.com	48
30	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	188	PRX	79
31	Crimes non résolus	Cogeco Média	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	94
32	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	162	Acast	69
33	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
34	Direct Action Combat Podcast	infopnb	Society & Culture	30	Podbean	41
35	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	87	Libsyn	62
36	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
37	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
38	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	698	Megaphone	53
39	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
40	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
41	COMMONS	CANADALAND	Society & Culture	291	Acast	69
42	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	22	Buzzsprout	42
43	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	262	Spreaker	69
44	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
45	Sabotage	Good Luck Media	Society & Culture	11	Megaphone	79
46	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	439	Acast	74
47	Next Question with Katie Couric	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	432	Omny Studio	63
48	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	279	Megaphone	43
49	How I Survived	That's Life!	Society & Culture	42	Omny Studio	53
50	PARANORMAL • Histoires Vraies	Minuit	Society & Culture	369	Audion	58
51	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1188	Acast	59
52	Crackdown	Crackdown Productions	Society & Culture	67	Blubrry	49
53	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	33	BBC	58
54	JAXXON PODCAST	Jaxxon Podcast	Society & Culture	353	Spotify for Podcasters	38
55	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	54	PRX	64
56	Passages, le podcast d'histoires vraies de Louie Media	Louie Media	Society & Culture	208	Acast	79
57	All My Relations Podcast	Matika Wilbur & Temryss Lane	Society & Culture	77	Buzzsprout	62
58	Afterlives: Marsha P. Johnson	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	25	Omny Studio	63
59	Radio Marz \| پادکست فارسی رادیو مرز	Marzie	Society & Culture	91	Acast	52
60	28ish Days Later	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	29	BBC	43
61	Micro Dix Quatre	www.patreon.com/microdixquatre	Society & Culture	45	Podbean	53
62	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	170	BBC	38
63	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
64	Mike Drop	Mike Ritland	Society & Culture	425	RedCircle	59
65	Into The Dirt	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	10	Acast	74
66	Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	33	Acast	69
67	The Pornhub Empire	CBC	Society & Culture	5	Triton Digital	63
68	Belief Hole \| Paranormal, Mysteries and Other Tasty Thought Snacks	SpectreVision Radio	Society & Culture	155	Megaphone	63
69	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	3	ART19	63
70	老高和小茉最新更新	老高与小茉高速更新	Society & Culture	460	Ximalaya	39
71	Extreme	BBC	Society & Culture	18	BBC	69
72	Weight For It	ohitsBigRon Studios	Society & Culture	25	PRX	84
73	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	188	Ximalaya	53
74	Valérie Deschamps	Valérie Deschamps	Society & Culture	25	Unknown	89
75	Great Lives	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	410	BBC	28
76	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
77	On podcast پادکست آن	mersen	Society & Culture	53	Simplecast	52
78	Away Days Podcast: Reporting from the Underbelly	H11, Cool Zone Media & iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	13	Omny Studio	48
79	The Vaping Fix	Wondery	Society & Culture	3	ART19	69
80	Sasquatch Odyssey	Sasquatch Odyssey-Bigfoot Encounters	Society & Culture	766	Spreaker	64
81	SCAMMERLAND	Superreal	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
82	Les balados Énergir	Énergir	Society & Culture	6	Spotify for Podcasters	28
83	Symptomatic: A Medical Mystery Podcast	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	46	Omny Studio	48
84	The Arctic Edge	Agnico Eagle	Society & Culture	17	Spreaker	84
85	Classy with Jonathan Menjivar	Pineapple Street Studios and Audacy	Society & Culture	11	WideOrbit	42
86	5CAST w/ Andrew Callaghan	Andrew Callaghan	Society & Culture	31	Buzzsprout	38
87	Family Lore	Audacy	History	27	WideOrbit	73
88	Storytime with Seth Rogen	Earwolf & Seth Rogen	Society & Culture	10	Simplecast	53
89	Threshold	Auricle Productions	Society & Culture	146	Captivate	38
90	CNN Presents	CNN Audio	Society & Culture	20	Megaphone	69
91	Gay Girl Gone	CBC	Society & Culture	8	Triton Digital	59
92	Boomtown	Imperative Entertainment and Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	15	Megaphone	64
93	Be Amazed	Be Amazed	Society & Culture	491	RedCircle	43
94	A Very British Cult	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	9	BBC	49
95	Art Bell Back in Time	Art Bell Back in Time	Society & Culture	3	Spotify for Podcasters	53
96	The Witch Farm	BBC Radio 4	Fiction	13	BBC	49
97	The Ultimate Choice	TVO	Society & Culture	8	Omny Studio	49
98	OnlyFantasy	Audible	Society & Culture	29	ART19	69
99	Invisible Institutions	Megan Q. Linton	Society & Culture	10	Podbean	48
100	The Coming Storm	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	24	BBC	39

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in Canada

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